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The Country of Others is Slimani's third novel and the first in a planned trilogy based on her family history. [1] It is Slimani's first historical novel. [2]Slimani said that after her second novel Lullaby won the Prix Goncourt in 2016 she wanted to "write something that was difficult because as an artist who had some congratulations, it’s important to do something where there is the ...
Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This article lists notable banned books and works, giving a ...
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1911. [1] All the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthly periodicals. Twenty-seven of ...
The Lives of Others is a novel by Neel Mukherjee. It was published in 2014 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in the US. The novel, the author's second one, was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize on 9 September 2014. [1] Bookbinder Tom McEwan was commissioned to make a custom binding for the book at the ceremony at ...
Michael Francis Flynn (December 20, 1947 [1] – September 30, 2023) was an American science fiction author. Nearly all of Flynn's work falls under the category of hard science fiction, although his treatment of it can be unusual since he applied the rigor of hard science fiction to "softer" sciences such as sociology in works such as In the Country of the Blind.
"The Others" (original Spanish title: "El otro") is a 1972 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1901-1975), collected in the anthology The Book of Sand (1975, English translation 1977). The story is an ostensibly autobiographical account of Borges meeting his younger, 19-year-old self.
BookCrossing (also known as BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be 'caught' by others, who may then do likewise. The term is derived from bookcrossing.com , a free online book community which was founded in 2001 to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."
The Origin of Others, published in 2017, is a non-fiction book by Toni Morrison, published in the U.S. by Harvard University Press with a Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates. [1] As the review from The Guardian notes: "This is a book not about racial difference (there is, after all, as Morrison notes, only one human race) but about the possibilities ...